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by xp84 2mo ago
Right? When Apple expects $149 minimum for their extremely mediocre membrane keyboard, and its only feature is the one they cheat to keep exclusive, it's embarrassing how much better a tiny team can do.
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by xp84 2mo ago
Not arguing with the general usefulness of the USB hub, but Apple chooses to make their Touch ID sensor 100% proprietary, so the inclusion of a hub is a separate topic to the comment you're quoting. There's no USB Touch ID reader,
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by xp84 2mo ago
Some people I know just velcro a Magic Keyboard to the bottom of their desktop for this reason. So frustrating that Apple won't sell just a button even at any price. Gotta buy their terrible keyboard for $150 to get that. eyeroll
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by xp84 2mo ago
Unfortunately, I would place this in the 'Sometimes but don't count on it' half of the "Things Apple Watch has Proven Itself Reliable For" list. (The only non-timekeeping items on the 'Always works perfectly&#x
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by xp84 2mo ago
Not defending anyone using Touch ID as a reason to complain about this -- I think it looks like a great keyboard -- but just yesterday I saw this super cool alternative to the hilarious "buy the world's most expensive mediocre mem
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by xp84 2mo ago
Thanks for posting this! It's an awesome tool. Makes me want to buy more tiny PCs. My only feedback is many of the ebay listings it points to are sold out, but I assume there's a limit to the freshness you can get. Still though, I
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by xp84 2mo ago
Liquid Glass is pretty trash, but iOS is not as bad as Tahoe.
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by xp84 2mo ago
Great domain name. Consider hosting a US site too, where we call our bribes “campaign and PAC contributions” and they’re completely legal, and while everyone knows about the bribes existing, most people think only The Other Party takes them
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by xp84 2mo ago
This is the way.^
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by xp84 2mo ago
This sounds like an interesting question, but really needs clarification on what you mean by “infrastructure.”
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by xp84 2mo ago
To be fair, you don’t have any evidence that they could. It’s speculation either way. The only data we have is they spend more every year, and that they still have the audacity to aggressively fundraise constantly by plastering every articl
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by xp84 2mo ago
I think IRL in the “rejection” case they don’t want to tell the user exactly why, since the user may be malicious and use it to try to evade the block. And for use in moderating UGC, well, most platforms don’t take seriously the idea that t
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by xp84 2mo ago
That’s like 2006 reasoning. An end user contacting someone who cares and has an intention to explain why it happened. 2016 scenario: An end user contacts the company, and a customer service rep answers the ticket, saying they’re sorry and e
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by xp84 2mo ago
I’ve felt for quite a long while that the moderation regime we fell into sometime around 2018-2020 has been shockingly bad. The rules are known and evaded by everyone, to the point I’m pretty sure Webster’s is adding “unalive” to the dictio
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by xp84 2mo ago
The problem is, if you open the doors to the good-faith vegan kind of stuff that isn't trying to lie, you also open the doors to a product called "Milk" which, only if you read the fine print on the label, is made of one part
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by xp84 2mo ago
This part ( https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/#pick... ) is especially cool. Would love to see this 3-D picker ability in the many character designers out there, instead of the lame 8 swatches or w
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by xp84 2mo ago
Here in America it’s the same - the people selling the fake stuff (sorry, “plant based stuff”) get around it by using fanciful spellings, that’s why we have “Cheez” and “OatMylk” and stuff. Also a VERY popular one: “Crème” - sounds fancy an
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by xp84 2mo ago
You’re asserting that Jamaican is in the top 15? That’s quite the claim.
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by xp84 2mo ago
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/2501/ "The average North American probably only knows about Ackee and Saltfish, and Curry Goat!" "And Oxtail Stew, of course." "Of course!" Does one need to kno
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by xp84 2mo ago
I think that type of law is usually supposed to protect against, not a surprised restaurant patron (because that's the kind of thing that would fix itself anyway, the customer would send it back and/or not go back) but subtle adul
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by xp84 2mo ago
I’m that ridiculous person who would rather learn OCaml from scratch if it meant I never had to use JS Kidding of course. Mostly.
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by xp84 2mo ago
I'm sure they are, but there just aren't that many of them. When you include only real professional "Hollywood" people plus the elite tier of YouTubers who can easily afford to drop $10,000 on a computer (The 'Mac P
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by xp84 2mo ago
Thank you for better articulating what's wrong with it way better than I could. Sometimes the text field doesn't even focus for me. I do use LaunchBar's emoji search, which basically works exactly like it should, instantly se
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by xp84 2mo ago
> half the movies at the Oscars last year were shot on film, so the notion that all filmmaking is just going to turn into pixel soup being generated from prompts > audiences don't want to watch content created that way. I want to
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by xp84 3mo ago
Agree, I think these companies want to make token usage opaque. Not dissimilar from an AWS bill at most orgs. Not saying you can’t, with great discipline, using good tags, etc, have a good view of where your money is going. But I don’t see
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by xp84 3mo ago
I’ll own up to being someone who does this when I’m on a Mac. The reason is simple: they don’t give you a way to type a “real” check. And though Emoji contain suitable ones, those aren’t always appropriate (or allowed, such as here). On a M
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by xp84 3mo ago
The "company" isn't the one considering it that. After all, it'll probably fail and you almost certainly won't work there. The company is just a paper entity that doesn't mean anything. But the people you say i
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by xp84 3mo ago
I'd suspect that (from Apple's perspective) any form of file sharing (other than iCloud) is now considered 'extremely niche.' If they were focused on the needs of the kind of person who moves enough terabytes of files ar
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by xp84 3mo ago
I massively disagree. If someone uses AI to port a whole game engine to $RETRO_OS and that means I can port a great game to that OS by hand that I wouldn't have been able to do otherwise, everybody has won there.
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by xp84 3mo ago
I hope most people are like Obama's energy strategy, famously described as "All of the above."[1] -- the AI-powered efforts don't take away anyone's ability to do amazing "by hand" accomplishments. There&#

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